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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Parasitol. 2009 Jun 24;25(7):336–343. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2009.04.005

Table I.

Qualitative assessment of different microarray platforms

Technology Variable length oligos Design flexibility High density
Chromium masking (Affymetrix) +++
Inkjet (Agilent) +++ +
Long oligos (Robotic printer) + ++
CGH-MP (NimbleGen-Roche) +++ +++ ++a
a

One million feature arrays now available. The plus signs provide a qualitative assessment of the design features of these four microarray platforms.